US History Chapter 7 and 8 Review

Supreme Court decisions from early 1800-1824 helped to establish the dominance of the federal/national government over what governments?

State governments

Who won the 1824 Presidential election in the House of Representatives?

John Quincy Adams

What treaty gave America control over Florida?

Adams-Onis Treaty

What are the details of the Missouri Compromise?

Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state

Whose presidency was described as the “Era of Good Feelings?”

James Monroe

The Tariff of 1816 helped American manufacturers by taxing what?

European goods

Which case established the Supreme Court as the nation’s court of final appeals?

Marbury vs. Madison (1803)

Which South Carolina case ruled that a national bank was constitutional?

McCulloch v Maryland (1819)

What three things were part of the American System?

Protective Tariff, renewal of the National Bank, and internal improvements

Which court case ruled the Cherokee nation had a right to their land claims in Georgia?

Worcester v Georgia

Supporters of the national nominating conventions said it would give more power to who?

The people

Why did Andrew Jackson support the spoils system?

He viewed it as a way to reward party loyalists and build a stronger party organization.

John C. Calhoun proposed nullification over what?

Secession

What did Eli Whitney invent to speed up the production of cotton? What did this invention increase the demand for?

Cotton gin; land and enslaved labor

The Industrial Revolution brought about a shift from hand tools to what?

Machinery

What states were bookends for the National Road?

Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois.

What is the belief in placing national interests above regional interests?

Nationalism

What was the Trail of Tears?

The forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast.

What was the “Common Man” idea and who used it to connect himself to the people?

A way to relate to ordinary people; Andrew Jackson

delegates from states gathered to decide on the party’s presidential nominee

National Nominating Convention

numbers of the party in congress met to choose the nominee for president

Caucus System

place supporters in office regardless of their ability

Spoils System

the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state

Secession

states have the right to declare a federal law invalid

Nullification